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Prince William needs help … ’cause his dancing sucks … and Indy legend Helio Castroneves (who also won “Dancing with the Stars”) is offering up his expertise! Helio joined the guy on the “TMZ Sports” TV show (airs tonight on FS1) … and…

Dale Earnhardt Jr. just made Mark Zuckerberg drop an S-bomb … taking the Facebook creator on his first ride on a NASCAR track … and it blew the billionaire’s mind. Zuck hooked up with Dale Jr. at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Facebook Live…

Khloe Kardashian’s in loooooove … and professed it to Tristan Thompson in an emotional birthday note to the NBA star. “To the happiest of birthdays my love! To the first of many more together! May God continue to bless you in all of your…

The codenames for Google’s next two flagship smartphones may have been revealed in official documentation. According to some sleuthing from Android Police, “Walleye” and “Muskie” may be the monikers used to refer to Google’s next two Pixel devices (the different names denote different sizes), carrying on a long tradition of marine-themed codenames.

For the uninitiated, Google typically employs the names of water-dwelling creatures as aliases for its upcoming smartphones and tablets. For instance, the original Pixel was referred to as Sailfish. Beyond this, there’s not much more information about what’s coming from Google’s next phone debut.

But we can certainly infer that Google will continue this tried-and-true tradition of naming its devices after varying underwater species — at least internally.

Chrome will accomplish this by more aggressively limiting the rate at which timers in the pages can fire when it notices that those particular tabs are consuming more power than they should. Chrome 57 will delay timers to keep average CPU load under 1% of a core in order to save power. Of course if a tab is playing audio or has a real-time connection like a video call it won’t be limited.

In Google’s testing, Chrome 57’s new policies on background tabs has initially led to 25% fewer busy background tabs. Ideally, the Chrome team hopes that webpage developers will adjust their behavior to rely on new APIs for service workers to do background tasks rather than simply forcing a tab to stay active.

The end result, both in the short- and long-term, is longer battery life when using Chrome on your laptop. And all you have to do is keep your Chrome browser up to date.

Ben Affleck announced he’s just completed a stint in rehab. Sources tell us he was at a facility almost immediately after the Oscars 2 weeks ago. Ben says he took it upon himself to get help because he had renewed problems with alcohol…